Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Semmelmeyer was the starting pitcher, but had to be lifted in favor of John Arnold in the second. Arnold was in the game till the sixth, when, Pat Groper came in to finish...
Warm-weather pitcher Bob Ward had climate to his liking yesterday afternoon, and showed it as he set M.I.T. down with one hit, 9 to 0, at Soldiers Field...
...last week, a few traces of expected form could be detected here & there. The power-packed Boston Red Sox, perennial early season favorites and constitutional also-rans in the American League, were having pitcher trouble again. They struggled through nine games before discovering a pitcher, Lefthander Mel Parnell, who could finish a game he started. Then the Sox promptly lapsed back into lackluster .500 ball. The New York Yankees, always strong on the mound, won all six games in their own stadium, then made themselves at home abroad by touching off an eight-game winning streak on the road...
...sharp rebuke from League President Ford Frick for "popping off" to umpires); Fire-bailer Don Newcombe, ace of the Dodger pitching staff, who won 19 games last year; Catcher Roy Campanella, best in the National League (he caught all 14 innings of 1950's All-Star game); Pitcher Dan Bankhead...
...Pittsburgh's Southpaw Pitcher Cliff Chambers, a no-hitter over the Boston Braves (3-0), the first no-hitter of the year and the first in either league since the Braves' Vern Bickford turned the trick last season...